New to Streaming: Remake, Nadja, Venice 2026 Shorts, and More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Faux Amis (Theo Matza)

Vincent Macaigne anchors this ideal use of the short-film format, wherein Adele (Clarice Reiner) and May (Michelle Moriarty), two American twenty-somethings with different backgrounds and a less-than-sturdy friendship, travel to Paris so that Adele can finally unite with the handsome Jacques (Macaigne), an (unbeknownst to the women) reclusive local who has been courting Adele via Instagram. The city is not kind to their relationship. Among numerous merits, boasts one of the better visual gags centered on a dart board.

Where to Stream: YouTube

Folktales (Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady)

In their documentary Folktales, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady weave Norse mythology (specifically that of “the three Norns”) and evocative imagery (courtesy of DP Lars Erlend Tubaas Øymo) with the modern-day story of northern Norway’s Pasvik Folk High School, a place where kids can take a gap year in the wild as a means of self-discovery. Ewing and Grady focus on students Hege, Romain, and Bjørn Tore. All three are dealing with their own traumas: Hege is lonely, still reeling from the tragic death of her father; Romain is a fearful high school dropout unsure of his ability to survive the camp and the wilderness; finally, Bjørn Tore thinks of himself as strange, awkward, and incapable of making friends. – Dan M. (full review)

Where to Stream: Netflix

Nadja (Michael Almereyda)

Could a director be best-known for what’s hardly been seen in 30-plus years? Notwithstanding the superb, modernized Hamlet—itself in less-than-prime circulation until a forthcoming Janus Films rerelease—Michael Almereyda is often directly associated with his pitch-black 1994 vampire comedy Nadja. While help is no doubt provided by its association with David Lynch (who personally financed the project and made a fun cameo along the way), the film is a vision par excellence of Almereyda’s mingling formal solidity, veers into shocking experimentation, off-tilt humor, and mastery of performance style. The film’s also been relegated to a crummy DVD, 480p rips of such, and the once-in-a-blue-moon repertory showing ever since. It’s a true occasion that this distended state—somewhere along the line of which I was lucky enough to write notes for its one-week-only streaming run—ends now with a 4K restoration from Grasshopper Film and Arbelos Films, which releases Nadja‘s three-minute-longer director’s cut on digital after a theatrical run. Read Nick Newman’s full interview.

Where to Stream: VOD

Remake (Ross McElwee)

Though best-known for his landmark reflexive documentary Sherman’s March, Ross McElwee crafted his most aching, personal film yet with Remake, one of the very best films of 2026. Partially structured around McElwee’s process when a company hopes to adapt Sherman’s March (a new restoration of which also comes to digital this week), its true nature soon reveals itself: a tribute to the director’s son and self-reckoning as McElwee ponders his hand in his progeny’s path. It’s a nakedly confessional, deeply emotional work that will break any parent’s heart into a million pieces.

Where to Stream: VOD

Sheep in the Box (Hirokazu Koreeda)

Told mostly from the perspective of the parents rather than their artificially reimagined son, Koreeda’s Sheep in the Box attempts to grapple with well-worn sci-fi ideas of android personhood and sentience through that incredibly overstated idea, asking whether it’s possible to overcome grief and build an emotional connection with a device that merely resembles a loved one. It’s not remotely groundbreaking terrain and, if anything, feels outdated for refusing to examine the darker edges of this world. We don’t come to Koreeda for tech cynicism, but his inherent humanism is why he might be the most ill-suited filmmaker to tell this story right now. – Alistair R. (full review)

Where to Stream: VOD

2026 Venice Film Festival Shorts

Continuing a yearly collaboration, Festival Scope has launched the Venice Sala Web initiative, where a collection of short films premiering at the 2026 Venice Film Festival are being presented. Now available worldwide, with a limited number of tickets, through September 30, it’s a fantastic way to get a taste of the renowned festival if you aren’t able to hop across the globe to attend.

Where to Stream: Festival Scope (through September 30)

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